Signaling macroblock mode information for macroblocks of interlaced forward-predicted fields
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- US ยท United States
- Current Assignee / Owner
- MICROSOFT TECH LICENSING LLC
- Publication Date
- 2005-03-10
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Abstract
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COPYRIGHT AUTHORIZATION A portion of the disclosure of this patent document contains material which is subject to copyright protection. The copyright owner has no objection to the facsimile reproduction by anyone of the patent disclosure, as it appears in the Patent and Trademark Office patent file or records, but otherwise reserves all copyright rights whatsoever. TECHNICAL FIELD Techniques and tools for interlaced video coding and decoding are described. For example, a video encoder and decoder use code table selection and joint coding / decoding of macroblock mode information for macroblocks of interlaced forward-predicted fields. BACKGROUND Digital video consumes large amounts of storage and transmission capacity. A typical raw digital video sequence includes 15 or 30 frames per second. Each frame can include tens or hundreds of thousands of pixels (also called pels), where each pixel represents a tiny element of the picture. In raw form, a computer commonly represents a pixel ...